post your chicken coop pictures here!

[country girl44]

@country girl44: If I may ask, where did you get the close gate sign?

Ebay. that's where I get all my cool signs.

 

[sdiver40]

I made mine so I could pull them around

 

[ShrekDawg]

Or Amazon. I've gotten some cool ones from there

 

[rothfarm2000]

Newer chicken Mom. This is my coop. Have added to the houses since the photo, needed more space for the girls to all sleep together .

They free roam during the day, but this coop gives them a nice secure place at night from predators.

 

[bigmrg74]

I posted these over in the hoop coop thread, and I thought I would share it here as well.

The nest boxes are just attached to a sheet of plywood, I wanna say either a half inch or 5/8ths maybe that's part of the rear of the coop and helps to support the hoop. I used 2x3's for the roof supports instead of 2x3's to try to save a little wight on the tractor. I kinda wished that I had spaced them out a little differently so that I would have had room to go with 5 nest boxes instead of 4, but it was enough for 12 birds easily. And then once I figured out where the nest boxes would be going, I just cut out a mostly square hole on the plywood to have outside access to the nests and then used a larger piece of plywood to be the door, with a few scraps placed on the plywood sheet to attache the hinges and latches at.

And the fencing is just 5 foot wide plastic deer netting that I got in 100 foot rolls at TSC. Its held up with the stands I made from PVC pipe that I glued together. there's a little cup hook at the top of the stands that hold the fencing. works pretty great, the only real snags I've had with that is when it snows a really sticky snow it can build up on the fencing and weigh it down, or my idiot brother didn't see that I had moved the fencing to there and runs into it.

I made the bases with 1 and a half PVC pipes and the pole is made with 1 inch PVC pipe. I got lucky when I first started out and found a bunch of tees for the middle there that made that work. last summer when I expanded the run to add the second roll of netting, I had to make more stands and I kinda ended up having to hunt high and low for some of those Tees. I have also thought about it after the fact now that packing those base pipes with sand would have made them a lot more stable. Might try that the next time I have to make some. that and maybe even a larger size of pipe for the base as well. Also, you can't see it these pictures well, but the fencing is also pinned down with landscape staples as well. I used bright zipties on them to help them stand out for when I'm coming along to pull them out to move the fencing again.

 

[perchie.girl]

I posted these over in the hoop coop thread, and I thought I would share it here as well.

as usual.... Brilliant...

 

[Country3883]

Here's what I have done on mine so Far I'm working on it little by little and fine had so many rainy days I couldn't work so I got this done on it still far from being finished

 

[Sylvester017]

Brite Tap nipple valve waterer jugs are 50% off for 4th of July. I like ours for a small flock. I have 3 of these and can put vitamins or electrolytes into the water jug. 2-gal handle jug is easy to carry, hang up in the coop, or set up free-standing. No algae buildup and water stays fresh for days.

http://www.chickenwaterer.com/Brite...wsletter&utm_content=ComboPackPromo&utm_term=

 

[Molpet]

Brite Tap nipple valve waterer jugs are 50% off for 4th of July. I like ours for a small flock. I have 3 of these and can put vitamins or electrolytes into the water jug. 2-gal handle jug is easy to carry, hang up in the coop, or set up free-standing. No algae buildup and water stays fresh for days.
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http://www.chickenwaterer.com/Brite...wsletter&utm_content=ComboPackPromo&utm_term=

thanks, good at 1/2 price but the shipping is almost $20 for me.. I have to think about it

 

[MartinsPoultry]

Im in the process of building a second coop, this one is mobile with an attached run. It will be 14ft long, 6ft high and 8ft wide, the actual coop section is 4x8x4 with a sloped roof off the left hand side if facing the back end of the coop, we are also giving the birds 2ft extra ground space below the coop. It will be screened in with hardware cloth to keep snakes away from my Bantams.

I will hopefully have photos of it soon, with the heat in WV it's been a killer on my asthma.